After feeling like I'd been really productive in ripping apart that book on Friday, I kept working on it on Saturday. Then I woke up at 3am on Sunday with the realization I'd done entirely the wrong thing.
So I scrapped about half the changes I'd made, and went back to figure out how I could fix the problems in a different way. Which I don't believe I've done yet. And now I'm wondering if the changes I made on Friday might have worked if I'd written a few extra bits in earlier on.
Damn, this writing thing is hard!
So this week, I plan to continue with this project. I'll either ruin it entirely or manage to fix the problems. Who knows?
The film festival starts on Thursday, so from then on, I won't have a whole lot of time to write or do anything else for a couple of weeks. Maybe the time away will help solve all the story problems I'm dealing with at the moment. I certainly hope so!
What are your goals this week?
Interesting to have a number of competing ideas about what to do with that story. I tend to hash that sort of thing out in my head until I've reached a burning need to set it down. But then I've also never done an extensive revision (other than a complete rewrite of opening chapters and such), unless it's a short story, in which case I have done that.
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